The book has approximately seven chapters that include the
foundations of self-confidence, purpose and personal power, achieving
competence and personal mastery, the inner game of self-confidence,
capitalizing on strengths, and overcoming adversity, and self-confidence in
action. Each of these chapters will help readers gain greater awareness of what
self-confidence is and where it can lead them.
Self-confidence is a very personal game one can master with
themselves. It is one in which you are both the player and the opponent. The world
is a reflection of what you believe and this confirms our self-beliefs. There
will always be those who desire to hold you back or gain at your expense but
ultimately you are the one who chooses to allow them. Once you make the choice
to stand up to yourself and for yourself the possibilities become endless.
True self-confidence is missing in the vast majority of
society even if most refuse to acknowledge it. The very act of not perceiving
areas of weakness and a need for improvement is the very essence of lacking
self-belief. Self-image is so low that some cannot bear the responsibility of
viewing themselves how they truly are, the battery of skills they maintain, and
the ones they need to add.
Before one
can pull themselves up from their current station in life they must first
acknowledge room for improvement and where to capitalize on the strengths they
have already developed.
Those people who are unstoppable in life are the ones who
can set goals and use the power of confidence to go after them. They allow no
one to stand in their way or to tell them such goals cannot be achieved. With
confidence they can blow by the competition and head straight for the goal
posts. They are unstoppable!
The last chapter of the book provides for the Four Ds of
Success and Self-Confidence. They
include:
-Desire: You must desire to become a self-confident purpose.
-Decision: You must make the decision that you will work on
yourself.
-Determination: You must be determined to change the way you
act and spend your time.
-Discipline: Do it and get it done.
The book is not scholarly by nature but does provide some
sound advice for its readers. Each of us has a few places to learn, develop,
and grow. There is no such thing as perfection in human life and those who
cannot see the room for improvement are delusional. The book will move through
a sequence of steps that help others gain a better perspective on how to
achieve their goals. It is in the genre
of business.
Tracy, B. (2012). The
power of self-confidence: become unstoppable, irresistible, and unafraid in
every area of your life. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN:
978-1-118-46401-4
Price: $15-$25
Pages: 156
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